- The term
Ris used to refer to both the programming language and the software that interprets the scripts written using it. RStudiois an interactive development environment which as this defintion suggests assists us in usingR
October 31 2019
R is used to refer to both the programming language and the software that interprets the scripts written using it.RStudio is an interactive development environment which as this defintion suggests assists us in using RTo understand computations in R, two slogans are helpful:
— John Chambers
“Reproducibility involves being able to recalculate the exact numbers in a data analysis using the code and raw data provided by the analyst…Reproducibility should not be confused with “correctness” of a data analysis. A data analysis can be fully reproducible and recreate all numbers in an analysis and still be misleading or incorrect."
Jeff Leek, The Elements of Data Analytic Style